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uence, like nsciously wielded, | for it THE LESSON WORD STUDIES, aed on the text of the Revised Proverbs.--The. great proverbs was Solo- , the king of Israel." " fold' that he uttered 3 ! such: say- by [<4 41s often nece : £2 a necessity. --That is, as one utterly fool: hardy, because of having been robbed «f his powers of reason and judgment by strong drink. « < "As he that lieth upon the top of a niast--The 'mast: 'and sails of ancient ships 'were 'more simple and clumsy | than those used In modern times; usu- ally but one large mast supporting. a large square sail fastened to a. yard of great length 'was used. . The drunkard is as foolhardy as one who woukl lie down fo sleep. on ihe top of such a mast, 85. Shalt thou say--The fact that these words are printed in "italics in both thé Authorized and Revised Ver. sions indicates that they are supplied by the translators and do not occur in {he original Hebrew. . In translating from any one language to he it cessary 10 thus supply words' lo give he ploinly inte eo nl ¢* the idiom of the language from whic one is making the translation. Such supplying of words is not' guesswork Not hurt--Or, "pained," The senses the drunkard arc so dulled that he omes unconscious: of cold or mis atment, "| -Seek it~ yet' again--The antecedent a Jot the pronoun "it" is left {0 be -sup- plied in thought by the reader. Wine . [or strong drink is referred to, and the evil influence of these so fills the} thought of the. writer that he neéglécts Slearly to indicate the subject in this The 1 tenod, i pe DIRE FAMINE. IN RUSSIA VIVID PEN PICTURES - PAINTED BY i Description. of. .(he ' Sullerings of, the ire of ibe condition he home town of Jasnaja, . Writes: FE Ho AR \ "un- ng | stomach do mot want 10 be troud e | duty." ndéd meaning | i x He rightfully new. about the masses. Bul these masses | are hungry, and are always siriving 10] life in their bodies. = ~~ : 1 beautiful, dreamy, wet eyes of the good, unhappy child taught me my mnt pt---- A SUMPTUOUS MASTERPIECE. By A. Banker.) Probably one of the most magnificent structures ever - erected on this earth was the. greal lemple of Diana at Ephesus, the ruins of which were dis- covered not many years ago, And judging from these ruins, and from the Iragmentary portions of some of the magnificent columns sent by the diseov- erer to -the British . Museum, London, the stately fane must indeed have been --with the one possible exception of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, gemmed. with 'precious stones, and over- laid with pure gold--the most imposing and the most majestic edifice which the world has ever seen, Each of the su- perb columns, which according to Pliny were sixty feet high, and of which there were a hundred and twenty-seven, is oucircled with sumpiuous life-size sta- tuary in the most exalted and most re- fined style of Greek art, upon which, up to this present day, the hand of Time has in some cases made scarce sny impression; and in addition to all this splendid embellishment, the temple was enriched with innumerable statues and other works of art by that great master, Praxiteles, and .by other of those illustrious princes of 'art, whose works have mever been equalled. or even scarce approached, by. any suc- cceding generation in any nation. But what innumerable scenes of sav- agery and of fiendish cruelty were wit- nessed in connection with the worship 'cl that goddess Diana in whose honor Ris 'mighty fane was erected. How of: len did the ery "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" resound as a tocsin-of im- pending doom to those who would not bow 'the knee to the gold and jvory be jewelled image. A fair young maiden gracefully robed h 'white flowing raiment stands before 'the image, in charge of a negro janitor, and surrounded by a throng of Roman soldiers, temple servitors, and weep- ing: friends. <The haughty priest silting by. the smoking altar in front of the image is_adjuring the brave girl to do sacrifice 16 the "Cast the in- cense, but orie grain, and thou art free; refuse, and thou art thrown to the lions." Her afflanced, a handsome Ra- man officer, fearing that he is to lose "| her for ever, seizes her hand and en- deavors to compel her to obey the priest, But nol not evén. for the sake of him whom: she loves so well, nol even for the whole round world and all it con- tains. would she deny Master and her | sacrifice to. the idal. . And then the fiat, tor | goes forth--"To the lions," and in a short lime the savage brutes are lear- fr er limb From 1 limb, and Ret pute spirit vaults npw on angel-wi 0 'the Paradise of God, ge s For she knows that her Redeemer had suffered for her far worse agony han any she could: be subjected to. hase lang "thrée hours mankind's sins Same vampire, were {as a foul and pestilential burden, too heavy fo bear. And then with a tri- is SL Une 0) ven are gpel er ence in the modern world. . They have [got to go--every last one of them. And formed, organ- ized, constituted, and all the rest of it, ic rid these islands of them, wriles a Londen correspondent. It was at the Hotel Metropole, the other night, while pleasure-loving Lon- doners, unwilling of the dire diseases that threatened them from the myriads {of rats in the sewers beneath their feet, were flocking to the theatres and music halls, that the decree of extermination against rals was pronounced. Sir James Crichton Browne, an eminent physician who has little faith in the efMcacy of drugs, but great faith in the value of preventive measures, presided. Enthusiastic anti-ralters cheered his periods as he indicted the rat at the bar of civilization. He described the familiar rodent as AN AWFUL THING, wilier and more poisonous than the ser- pent--the disseminator of plagues and ali their unholy terrors--"a ghoulish garbager whose fecundity was some- thing terrible lo contemplate. One pair of rats, he said, under favorable con- ditions would produce 800, each one of which might become a vehicle of the most awful scourge that could afflict humanity. The rat, he told his audience, had Leen proven {o be mainly responsible for the propagation of the plague in India and had there caused the death o! 5,250,000 peaple since 1896. The rat was the great reservoir ol diseases, and the flea was the channel for its carri- age, and if plague was to be got rid of they must fill up the reservoir--stamp out the rat. Sir James called upon the assemblage te adopt the role of the modern Pied Piper. He advised all earnest rat-ex- terminators to avail themselves of the discovery of Dr. Dansyz. This distin- guished Frenchman had evolved a dea.d- ly virus, harmless to other animals, which when spread on bread and but ter or toasted cheese, forms a dainty dish for the rapscallion rodent. Bul after he had partaken of il, it made him ill--very ill indeed. And after a certain t'me it afflicted him with a feverish de sire for fresh air and open spaces. Then the poor val crawled forth from his hole to die with his tail in knols and his little pink eyes ABULGE WITH AGONY. Meanwhile he had spread the disease (rodentiosis) to all the neighboring fami- lies; and presenlly they became ob- sessed with the craving for fresh afr; and out they came gasping--to die the dreadful death. It was war--war with- out mercy and no quarter--tha} Sir James wanled waged against the rat. Therefore he would not depend on the deadly virus alone. Cats, terriers, fer- refs, .fraps--anything and everything that "would reduce their numbers -- should be ruthlessly employed against suggested this quotation from Hamlet: "How now! A ral? Dead) for a ducafl" One enthusiastic @ntiratler declared that 'London was the greatest rat-cen- ire In the world. He said there were 6,000,000 of them in the cily. Just how be had managed to take a census of them he did not explain, but nobeo'y ventured to dispute his figures, nor his assertion that the existence of such a vast army of rats constituted a dis grace to the metropolis of the worl} which should bring fhe blush of shame to. 'every - public-spirited citizen who lived "in it. But nobody blushed. Commissioner Nicoll of the Salvaticn FArmy put in a good word. for the cat. The army, he said, had started two cat farms in India and were breeding cas a= rapidly as possible -- recruited by such specimens of stray pussies ns they eould import from England. Given time and chance he thought the Salveticn Arty cats, by killing off-the rals, would 'accomplish a great deal in' goubsting 'THE PLAGUE IN INDIA. 1 that dons prove you can't fight th cats I don't know anything t logic. - Cals ain't going lo do ais {han he Join London giving 'em the French poison re how much it burls {ihe Society for the Extermination of | Vermin has been duly them: -As a motto for the sociely he |* TT m 6 : ; I l | oF 4 i 0 | i it Ii 3k HE bi il 8 F : 3 } Put on a thick bed of fresh coal. let the fire burn sbout len minutes, them close the dust damper and take wp the hot ashes. Remember fo close the draffs when the coal begins to lock red on top. When the house is warm enough. per- tially open the checks. In very cold weather, put 2 ' y of hodfuls on in the middle of the day and keep the drafls in the lower door | i open s tly. Pementber' hat if cold alr comes up in the air box. OUTSIDE AIR. 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